Barbara Scherek’s Coloring Books for Fundraising

 Barbara Scherek is an author, illustrator and music composer from Annandale, Minnesota. Many people say her rhyming coloring books are delightful!  Barbara is committed to providing quality coloring books that enhance the learning process of your children while helping your school fund creative educational programs.

These charming activity books can guide your children in exploring the fun world of imagination and wonderment about their world in an enjoyable, educational and playful way.

Purchasing Barbara's books expands and nurtures the creativity and learning potential of each child while supporting an integration of creative writing, art and science in their education.  These books provide wonderful and healthy fundraising opportunities that will help your school pay for special educational projects and innovative programs in the creative arts and sciences. 

Please allow 2 weeks for delivery from time order is received.  You can choose to sell all books at either $15 per book, earning $3 or $20 per book earning $6.  You decide.  Just let us know what price so we can send the flyers with the appropriate pricing.  Books are $1 additional if you request them sent Express Mail.  The teacher or school representative needs to mark this on the flyers and on the order form in the appropriate place.  We recommend that if Monarch Majesty is ordered for fall monarch season, that you place your order by Express Mail during the first week of school and request Express Mail delivery.  There is also the option of ordering them in spring for prompt fall delivery.  Each purchase will not only give each child their own book to color in, but the Star Arts donation from book sales is for each school to enhance their curriculum in creative ways. Purchasing these activity books can make it possible for your school to do the following:

1) Hire creative writers, artists, or musicians to visit the classroom.

2) Initiate or enhance a monarch butterfly program in the classroom.

3) Have educational field trips to a zoo or have zoo animals, or docents, visit the classroom.

4) Have educational field trips to a Bug Museum or Raptor Center at a local University.

5) Have a theater troupe visit the school for hands on experience.

6) Any other creative educational programs that interest your school.

Your school principal and the president of your school's PTA can work with Star Arts to decide who to would like to fund this initiative at your school, whether that be the parents of the students or local business owners. The PTA members and the principals of each school can collaborate in deciding how best to utilize the funds in ways that either enhance, or complement existing curriculum, or in ways that initiate new programs. Star Arts offers the above suggested uses to enhance creativity in the educational process. Teachers are encouraged to come up with other creative learning possibilities.  The decisions as to how each school will use these funds needs to be based upon the individual needs of each school. After applying these funds to creative programs of your school's choice, Barbara would like the school representative to submit a form explaining how the school chose to use the funds, and how it enhanced the education of the children. She is open to receiving suggestions from each school. Perhaps these suggestions can be gathered and posted on her website to give other schools ideas.

Children love the detail in these books. They are recommended for ages 7 to adult.  These coloring books have even been used in pre-school classes.  Coloring in detail is an excellent way to develop fine motor skills and to strengthen visualization abilities.  The children can use markers, gel pens, colored pencils and similar art materials that have a finer tip for coloring detail.    * Note: Crayons will not work as well for much of the detail in these books.

The school representative needs to meet with teachers and find out which book would be used for which grade level. For instance, if you have a monarch program in your second grade class, then Monarch Majesty would best complement that grade level.  If your fourth grade class has a pet turtle or tortoise, then Turtle Tidbits would best complement that grade level. Each book is to be used only for one grade level and then to continue with the same grade levels for following years. For instance, a school may choose Anthill for their first graders, Monarch Majesty for their second graders, and Turtle Tidbits for their third graders. However this is flexible. Another school may choose Turtle Tidbits for fifth graders, Anthill for sixth graders, and Monarch Majesty for seventh graders. Whatever you choose, please keep it the same for the following years so the students are not coloring in the same book 2 years in a row.

            After the PTA decides which book will be for which grade level, then you would decide if you will send flyers home with the children seeking the participation of their parents or whether you will send out flyers to local businesses, and contact them seeking their sponsorship. *Note: You may do a combination of both if that works best for your school.

            After this is decided, you may call Star Arts to request which flyers you would like and how many of each one and the flyers will be sent to the school representative (along with an order form for the parent’s orders).

            The flyers for parents need to be filled out and returned with payment to the child’s teacher.  Then the school representative needs to send payment with the order form to Star Arts.  The business flyers need to be filled out and confirmed with the school representative and mailed with payment to Barbara at:

Star Arts
9182 Kilbury Ave NW
Annandale MN 55302        

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact Barbara directly at 320-274-1881

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